Word: wanda
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...Wanda Queen, 24, testified at a City Council meeting Oct. 4 that she was only allowed to register after several attempts: registrars rejected rent receipts, a birth certificate an officially validated birth certificate and an identification card. They finally accepted a series of telephone bills...
According to Wanda Rutledge, deputy director of USA Baseball, 200,000 girls play the sport at youth level (under the age of 12), yet the numbers dwindle after that stage because girls are later deterred from playing baseball...
Fierce Creatures is not a sequel in the usual sense of the word. But it does reassemble the key zanies of A Fish Called Wanda: Kevin Kline, all ego and libido and stupid schemes; John Cleese, all British pomp, phlegm and cluelessness; Jamie Lee Curtis, still innocent of the effect her form encased in a tight dress can have on impressionable males; Michael Palin, just plain innocent, but with his former stammer replaced now by another verbal disability--logorrhea...
...comic premises go, this is not exactly a world-beater. But soon enough, the keepers--gentle souls all--are funnily up in arms defending their pets. A wandering tarantula motivates a genteel striptease, and the mean mogul gets his comeuppance. The script, by Cleese and Iain Johnstone, lacks Wanda's mean and giddy inventiveness, and the directors, Robert Young and Fred Schepisi, don't wind their material very tightly. Still, this good-natured movie is very much in the spirit of those ancient comedies from Ealing Film Studios in which nice, silly people defend some enclave of old-fashioned sanity...
BORN: Dec. 11, 1941, Helena EDUCATION: Stanford U, A.B., 1964, LL.B., 1967 FAMILY: Wife, Wanda; one child RELIGION: United Church of Christ MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Montana House, 1973-75; U.S. House, 1975-78; U.S. Senate, 1978- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 586, Helena...